The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
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The problem with the Jehadi Muslims is not just that they are indulging in Jehad. But, that they feel that it is not just their right to do so, but anyone even so much as pointing it out, has to apologize. Heck, should even be sued!
An internal circular of Mumbai Police about a local Islamic Organization of girls says that this organization is brainwashing the girls to prepare them for Jehad. This is certainly not the only organization which is doing so. We know that SIMI has done it and many other organizations – specifically in Kerala – have been doing it as well!
The “internal circular” said the Girls Islamic Organisation (GIO) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, one of the country’s largest Islamic organisations that runs 40 high schools and three junior colleges in Maharashtra, has been operating with the objective of “brainwashing college and school girls and train them for jihad”.
“The group GIO is related to Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and it was established in Kerala. The purported aim of this organisation is to make more and more Muslim women aware of their religion and the holy Quran. But the real objective of this organisation is to brainwash school and college girls and train them for jihad,” the circular, issued last month, says.
The Jamaat’s Maharashtra spokesman Mohammad Aslam Ghazi has threatened to sue the Mumbai Police if they don’t apologize. Apologize for what??? To say that they are doing what they are doing??
Actually, it is a pity that in India no one has done an investigation of most of the mosques and what they teach/propagate. From the normal discourse and narrative that goes on in the Muslim community, I won’t be surprised if a lot of the extremist ideas and stances are pushed through the mosques. In Britain a detailed undercover story was done for BBC called “Undercover Mosque”. It is indeed an eye opener.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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